Another Day in the HR Field

Guess What? With all the stress in my life of late (since November), I finally got around to getting my 2014 HR Webcast Schedule put together! These are all pre-approved for 2 General HRCI Credits.  Please share! https://uisapp-s.uis.edu/ows/continuing_education/index.php?q=catalog%2F1 04/17/14 - Understanding the PPACA and How it Impacts Your Business 05/01/14 - Conducting Employee Opinion Surveys 05/15/14 - Developing or Revising Your Company Handbook 05/22/14 - Employee Harassment and Discrimination Awareness Training 05/29/14 - Conducting Your Own HR Audit 08/21/14 - Affirmative Action Plan: Where do I start? 09/11/14 - Conducting a Salary Comparability Study 09/25/14 - Social Media for Employers 10/09/14 - Conducting Employee Disciplinary Investigations 10/23/14 - Hire and Develop Top Employees 11/13/14 - Ready or Not!!! Good Employee Relations is Here to Stay 12/11/14 - Administering A...

Is compensation a numbers or a head game?   I think it is a little bit of both, and here is why.   My story with comp starts when I was just in high school and college.   I really wanted to go into accounting because I thought that numbers were fascinating.   I had taken every single business class in high school and had intended to earn a Business Administration degree because I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life back then.   My dream was to be business women wearing suits, making decisions, and managing people.   What that actually looked like in terms of industry of specific field in business, I had no idea. While in college I had to take intermediate accounting, statistics and calculus as well as higher level classes.   Intermediate Accounting was just not fun and I ended up stopping at that point and changing my major.   I had finished my statistics class and my calculus but I didn’t move on to the higher level ma...

Cheaper, faster, and more succinct is the goal in this HR Tuesday Lunch-N-Learn program. In November I will embark on a new experience. I have been teaching HR for years in organizations and at universities and now I am going to be teaching via the World Wide Web! I admit I have been teaching online via UIS since 2008 but this will very different. My office doors will be open to any interested HR professional who wants to learn more without taking a full 17 week course. The courses are designed to sit at your desk with your lunch and learn on Tuesday’s in November through mid-December. As an HRCI pre-approved provider I have submitted all of these programs for 2 hours of recertification credit. The programs are co-sponsored by Rogers HR Consulting and University of Illinois at Springfield. Affirmative Action Plan: Where do I start? 11/29/11 11am-1pm (2hr) If you have been told by a vendor, a consultant, a department of labor specialist that your company is required to prepare and...

Teaching Human Resources (HR) has truly been very rewarding for me. I believe that Human Capital is one of the strong pillars of a company that has the potential of giving the company its competitive advantage. Achieving operational excellence is no more a secret to any one company. But in my opinion, what gives a company its true edge is its work force. I think it is important to cultivate this notion amongst our future generation of business people. This has always been my ultimate motto to teach HR not just to budding HR professionals but to all the individuals who would be involved in the business world in some way. It is my belief that if employees are well respected, they will in turn reciprocate. It is fascinating to see how my students understand the true value of human resource management. They understand that one does not need to have HR in their title to learn and implement the nuances of HR. After every course that I teach, I ask my students to fill out an optional question...